. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state . to the General Court: SergeantJohn Heald of Concord, who marched to the rehef of Brookfield,the father of Lieutenant John Heald, who commanded the Concordtroops when the company marched to Boston to participate in theoverthrow of Sir Edmund Andros, as Governor: Simon Gates ofCambridge, a soldier in King Phihps War and a descendant of SirGeoffrey Gates and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Clapton, theparents of Sir John Gates, Master of the Horse to Edward VI ofEngland; Chancellor of th
. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state . to the General Court: SergeantJohn Heald of Concord, who marched to the rehef of Brookfield,the father of Lieutenant John Heald, who commanded the Concordtroops when the company marched to Boston to participate in theoverthrow of Sir Edmund Andros, as Governor: Simon Gates ofCambridge, a soldier in King Phihps War and a descendant of SirGeoffrey Gates and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Clapton, theparents of Sir John Gates, Master of the Horse to Edward VI ofEngland; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Peter Emmons ofIpswich, Edward Culver of Dedham and New Haven, John Batchel-der of Reading, Sergeant Josiah Dewey of Westfield, Joseph Jewett,Jr., of Rowley, Thomas Wood of Rowley, soldiers in King PhihpsWar: Lieutenant John Pearson of Lynnfield, Ensign NathanielLawrence of Groton, John Page of Watertown, Joseph Jewett ofRowley, Wilham Titcomb of Newbury, Captain Joseph Boyntonof Groton and Rowley, and Lieutenant John Smith of Reading,Members of the General Court of ARTHUR EMMONS PEARSON ARTHUR EMMONS PEARSON has been for nearly thirty .years connected with the Holhngsworth & Whitney Com-pany, one of the largest paper manufacturing concerns ofNew England. He was a Franklin Medal scholar of the Boston Schools andpassed the examination for entrance to the Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology, but entered immediately on business life. He has been much interested in American history, particularlyof the Colonial and Revolutionary periods. He has compiled agenealogical record of about four thousand descendants of JohnPearson (1615-1679) of Lynn and Reading and of John Benjamin(circa 1598-1645) of Newtowne, now Cambridge and Watertown,his paternal and maternal emigrant ancestors. He has also made arecord of more than four hundred of the progenitors of his parents,including their military and civil services and their ecclesiasticalministrations.
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